It's o8:37 a.m. and I'm heading off to Denny's for some breakfast before crossing town to search out the Calgary CSC based at Peanuts Sports Pub, Carriage House Inn, 9030 MacLeod Trail South.
Just love the address, "Macleod Trail South".
I'm staying at a place called the motel village on "Banff Trail NW".
The street and road names (and the snow and frozen over Bow river) conjure up tales of pan-handling, gold-rushes, mounties in pursuit of pistol Pete, and having to decide which of the huskies to shoot and eat in order to survive another night in the wilderness!
Times were hard then!
Still I'm gooing to catch the cross town C-train which for the princely sum of $2.50 ($1.50 ish) will speed me in Comfort from Banff Trail station to Heritage in approx 28 minutes.
Got to arrange to see the Queens park game the morra at 7 a.m.
Will be here until Sunday when I get a bus across the Rockies.
That should be interesting.
Fortunately I think that the bears (brown, white, or teddy) are all in hibernation at the moment, although it would be good to upstage the Saltmarket bus with my tale of encountering a grizzly on the snow capped peaks of British Columbia!
Mind you if you've ever had the misfortune of foolishly wandering into Whitelaws after a game against 'them', a Grizzly holds little fear!
Hail Hail
Estadio
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Fit like Matt?
Bet you are glad to be away from the cold and the snow back home in Scotland. "What's that? Eh? Oh."
Glad to see that you are still managing to get a pint of the black stuff. All the best on your travels, and keep posting.
And keep the faith.
Hail! Hail!
Curly
Hi Matt
I tried to respond to your earlier posts but I seem to have fallen out of favour with google/blogger.
Just wanted to day I was following your mad adventure even though I could not comment.
I remember Calgary as one of the places that still allows smoking in bars.
If you come across any bears on your bus journey, remember to keep them free. The only bears we want in captivity are the Manchester Black (Sheep) Bears.
Oh! and those involved with Ibrox Honey Laundering.
Enjoy Vancouver. I really enjoyed my last visit there. A great mix of a city.
Good to hear from you Ulryc and SFTB.
I have just e-mailed my brother with a confession of doing stupid things in the past.
Believe me if I carry the impact of those forward into any next life, Glen Hoddle will be sniggering up his sleeve as I am forced to return as a troglodyte with varicose veins.
Anyway, I really managed to surpass previous failings when in a temperature of circa -51 degs c (including wind Chill....without the wind it was a comfortable -35), I ventured out with my hair wet.
Five minutes later I went into a bar and couldn't get my hat off!
Been to the Calgary CSC today, but the bar is more of a restaurant and was very busy at Lunchtime. I'll try to contact Neil Walsh (CSC president) tonight to confirm game for tomorrow morning, but the temperature has started to plummet again.
It really can be painful to be out in this sometimes so if it gets too raw, I may rely on whatever I can get on the net/CQN to keep me up to date!
Anyway, time to continue with the real writing so for the moment
Hail Hail
Matt
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